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第 90 頁 - Au8us" cowardly disposition prompted him at the age of nineteen to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside. With the same hand, and probably with the same temper, he signed the proscription of Cicero and the pardon of Cinna. His virtues, and even his vices, were artificial; and according to the various dictates of his interest, he was at first the enemy, and...
第 90 頁 - With the same hand, and probably with the same temper, he signed the proscription of Cicero and the pardon of Cinna. His virtues, and even his vices, were artificial ; and according to the various dictates of his interest, he was at first the enemy, and at last the father, of the Roman world.
第 90 頁 - ... consideration of the character of that subtle tyrant. A cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition, prompted him at the age of nineteen to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside. With the same hand, and probably with the same temper, he signed the pro80 THE DECLINE AND FALL AD scription of Cicero and the pardon of Ch1na.
第 297 頁 - Instead of rejecting these impious flatteries, Agrippa received them with an air of complacency ; "and the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory.
第 485 頁 - ... thorns, he pulled out the twigs which had pierced it, and crawling on all fours through a narrow passage that had been dug, he entered the villa and lay down in the first room he came to, on a couch with a common mattress, over which an old cloak had been thrown. Though suffering from hunger and renewed thirst, he refused some coarse bread which was offered him, but drank a little lukewarm water. XLIX. At last, while his companions one and all urged him to save himself as soon as possible from...
第 viii 頁 - ... language, may be considered as rapid sketches rather than regular and accurate histories. The French have the voluminous works of Tillemont and Crevier upon this subject ; and the latter of these authors is not unknown to English readers. But his work, if it had no other faults, is presented to us in a translation, occupies part of the period selected by Gibbon, and is exceedingly diffuse, being extended to no less than ten volumes octavo. It is presumed therefore that the Lives of the first...
第 57 頁 - ... country. Since they were compelled to answer that one question, and Caesar did not hear under what circumstances and how Herod had acted, he became still more angry and wrote to Herod in a harsh tone throughout and particularly in the main point of his letter, which was that whereas formerly he had treated him as a friend, he would now treat him as a subject.
第 214 頁 - ... and Timotheus wagered beards upon a controversy ; and Timotheus, being vanquished, was most cruelly shaven, that his beard might be carried about Europe AS a trophy. Such questions as these engaged the lives of old grammarians: How many rowers had Ulysses? Was the Iliad composed before the Odyssey ? Who was the mother of Hecuba? What name did Achilles bear when wearing woman's dress? What...
第 378 頁 - ... gaze or to set off her beauty. Her character she never spared, making no distinction between a husband and a paramour, while she was never a slave to her own passion or to that of her lover. Wherever there was a prospect of advantage, there she transferred her favours. And so while she was living as the wife of Rufius Crispinus, a Roman knight, by whom she had a son, she was attracted by the youth and fashionable elegance of Otho, and by the fact too that he was reputed to have Nero's most ardent...
第 230 頁 - Father of the Armies/' and " Greatest and Best of Caesars "), chancing to overhear some kings, who had come to Rome to pay their respects to him, disputing at dinner about the nobility of their descent, he cried : " Let there be one Lord, one King.